Samhain and a new beginning

Those of you actually still following this blog after my year of trauma and loss (and intermittent posting) may recall a novel I talked about back in 2010 called The Late Night Horror Show. This was a novel I had sold to Leisure Books/Dorchester Publishing based on a synopsis. I had written 15,000 words of it when Dorchester abruptly dropped their mass-market publishing line. No need to rehash all the associated drama with that development. The bottom line is I negotiated a cancellation of that contract and parted ways with Dorchester. I did not resume writing The Late Night Horror Show as there seemed to be no point at that time.

However, because of a brewing dissatisfaction with some other things I need not go into, I recently wound up talking to former Leisure horror editor Don D'Auria again about Late Night Horror Show. Don is now the editor of the new horror line at Samhain Publishing. And yesterday I signed a new contract for this book. Samhain Publishing will publish The Late Night Horror Show in early 2013. I'm happy to join the Samhain crew and very glad to be working with Don D'Auria again.

More news on this as it develops. In the meantime, check out Samhain Horror's page at the link below:

http://www.samhainpublishing.com/horror.htm

Kayla paperback

It's been out via Kindle for a while, but my new urban fantasy novel Kayla and the Devil is now also available in trade paperback. Although this novel falls within the urban fantasy category, it contains plenty of elements that should appeal to horror fans. You can get the paperback at Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Kayla-Devil-Bryan-Smith/dp/1467923737/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Or at Create Space:

https://www.createspace.com/3721779

I'll take a moment to point out that I get a significantly higher royalty rate if you order from Create Space. That said, I won't hold it against anyone who orders from Amazon. Amazon is easy and it's always what I use, too. Just wanted to put the info out there.

While I'm posting, I'll also note that I am currently working on The Killing Kind 2. I'm about 35,000 words into it at this point.

Kayla And The Devil

UPDATE: The price at both Amazon and Smashwords has been reduced to $2.99.

My new urban fantasy novel, Kayla and the Devil, is now available from Amazon.com for the Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/Kayla-And-The-Devil-ebook/dp/B005UD2EQA/ref=pd_rhf_gw_p_t_1

And for non-Kindle e-readers at Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/95230

As mentioned above, this is an urban fantasy novel. Although it does feature supernatural subject material, readers should not go into it expecting anything like The Killing Kind, Depraved, or any of my other hardcore horror novels. This is more along the lines of Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden novels meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer (though it isn't about vampires). So there isn't much in the way of gore. However, I think horror fans willing to give it a chance will enjoy it. It's a fun story.

For now this novel is only available in digital format. A trade paperback will follow at a later date. I'll let you know when that's available.

Return of The Killing Kind

A lot of regular readers of this blog will know that the original mass market paperback edition of The Killing Kind was released a little more than a month before everything went to hell at Dorchester Publishing.

Flash forward to now, and my new publisher, Deadite Press, has unleashed a new edition of this book upon the world:

http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Kind-Bryan-Smith/dp/1936383748/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

Big thanks to Jeff Burk and everyone else at Deadite Press for making this book available again. The Killing Kind may well be my favorite of all the books Dorchester released, and I'm happy to see it get back out there in the world. Deadite will also release new versions of the rest of my Dorchester backlist later this year and into 2012.

Highways To Hell available now

The print edition of my new short fiction collection from Deadite Press, Highways To Hell, is finally in stock and available from Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Highways-Hell-Bryan-Smith/dp/1936383683/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311270923&sr=1-1

Highways To Hell will also be available in ebook formats in the very near future. I don't know exactly when yet, but I imagine this will happen at some point in the coming few weeks.

99 cent zombies

The ebook of Rock And Roll Reform School Zombies is 99 cents on Kindle through the end of this month:

http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Reform-School-Zombies-ebook/dp/B004T5W6PY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=merchant-items&qid=1300782251&sr=1-1

This is a 34,000 word novella. It's a homage to 80's heavy metal and B horror movies.

Sorry, it's not available in other ebook formats at this time. Amazon/Kindle is easy to do, and I'm lazy about getting it up on other sites. Maybe someday down the line a bit I'll get around to that. Meanwhile, though, if you have a Kindle, you can snatch it up cheap.

Highways To Hell cover

Time for the first non-depressing post on this blog in quite some time. Here is the cover for Highways To Hell, my short fiction collection from Deadite Press. It should be available for order from Amazon.com by the end of the month.